• 九きゅう

  nine, 9

• 九九くく

  multiplication table, times table

• 九重ここのえ

  ninefold

• 九つここのつ

  nine

• 九州きゅうしゅう

  Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)

• 十九じゅうきゅう

  nineteen, 19

• 北九州きたきゅうしゅう

  Kitakyushu (city)

• 千九百年代せんきゅうひゃくねんだい

  the 1900s

• 九チュー

  nine

• 九夏きゅうか

  summer

• 九人きゅうにん

  nine people

• 九地きゅうち

  very low land

• 九仞きゅうじん

  great height

• 九割きゅうわり

  ninety percent

• 九穀きゅうこく

  the nine grains

• 九天きゅうてん

  sky, heavens, palace

• 九大きゅうだい

  Kyushu University (abbr)

• 九泉きゅうせん

  hades, nether regions

• 九分くぶ

  nine parts, ninety percent, mostly

• 九生きゅうしょう

  nine lives (of a cat)

• 九死きゅうし

  narrowly averting death

• 九折きゅうせつ

  many turns (in a road)

• 九博きゅうはく

  Kyushu National Museum (abbr)

• 九絵くえ

  longtooth grouper (Epinephelus bruneus)

• 九回きゅうかい

  nine times

• 九段くだん

  ninth dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)

• 九拝きゅうはい

  bowing repeatedly, kowtowing

• 九一くっぴん

  scoring combination of a 9 and a 1 in oicho-kabu

• 九輪くりん

  kurin, nine vertically stacked rings on a pagoda finial

• 九品くほん

  nine levels of Amitabha's Pure Land

• 九六くんろく

  ozeki ranked wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank

• 九族きゅうぞく

  nine nearest generations of relatives, four generations back, oneself, and four generations to come

• 九紫きゅうし

  ninth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mars and south)

• 九献くこん

  three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups

• 九竅きゅうきょう

  the nine holes in the body of humans and other mammals (mouth, eyes, ears, etc.), nine orifices

• 九卿きゅうけい

  nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government)

• 九字くじ

  nine-character charm chanted with ritual gestures to ward off evil (esp. by mountain ascetics and adherents of Esoteric Buddhism)

• 九星きゅうせい

  nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope

• 九曜くよう

  Navagraha (divine personifications of the nine celestial bodies in Hindu mythology), nine luminaries

• 二九にく

  eighteen

• 寒九かんく

  ninth day of the cold season (approx January 13th)

• 牌九パイガオ

  pai gow (Chinese gambling game played with dominoes)

• 重九ちょうきゅう

  Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month), Double Ninth Festival

• 第九だいく

  ninth

• 九州弁きゅうしゅうべん

  Kyushu dialect

• 九電工きゅうでんこう

  Kyudenko Corporation

• 九頭竜くずりゅう

  nine-headed dragon

• 九角形きゅうかくけい

  nonagon, enneagon

• 九面体きゅうめんたい

  enneahedron, nonahedron

• 九去法きゅうきょほう

  casting out nines